Allianz Global Investors is a subsidiary of Allianz SE, a multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich and founded in 1890. Allianz SE now services 85 million customers in over 70 countries. In 1998, Allianz saw the opportunity to integrate all of its major asset management units under one roof and, over the past decade, Allianz Global Investors has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions.

In addition to specialised in-house research teams around the globe that carry out analysis across economic and industrial sectors, Allianz hosts GrassrootsSM Research, which combines the work of more than 70 reporters and 300 field investigators and oversees over 350 company and industry studies each year.